You Made It Weird #51: Kurt Braunohler

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Kurt Braunohler (comedy, new comedy game show BUNK!) is one of Pete’s absolute favorite people. Fascinating stories of relationships, comedy, and lots of bad and offensive German accents. I mean, what else do you want?! It’s WEIRD, FOLKS. WEIRD. Kisses!

@Liam Ha! Yeah, my wife is about to kill me with the FIVE hundred WEEKS thing. Yesterday she was like, “If you don’t stop saying FIVE hundred WEEKS, no sex for FIVE hundred WEEKS!” I had to pull over I was laughing so hard.

Btw, when you say FIVE hundred WEEKS it’s probably that much funnier, what with whatever form of the British accent you have. “I say, old chap, would you care for a spot of FIVE hundred WEEKS!”

Yo @Liam! The best site online for religious discussion, I think, is beliefnet.com — I took a quick look, they’ve got some cool articles on the rapture and what it’s all about in the Christian faith. I’m not Christian myself, but check out: http://www.catholic.com/tracts/the-rapture. Turns out, you’re right, most Christians are “amillennial”. Which is a pretty cool word, if you ask me.

I’d actually heard both the ventriloquist prank story on How Was Your Week, and the rumspringa story on This American Life, and not made the connection that it was the same guy. I won’t make that mistake again, Kurt is hilarious.

Just to make it religiously weird, I don’t think Catholics believe in the Rapture do they? Not in that literal good-people-being-zapped-up-and-other-people-being-Left-Behind sense. Neither do the Eastern Orthodox Christians, Quakers, European Protestants in general. I could be wrong but I think it’s more of an American thing, the idea got popular over on your side of the Pond (Atlantic Pond not Pacific Pond) in the 19th century and then became even more widespread in the 20th through Evangelical movements and stuff

And second, there are actually TWO laws in the Independent United Republic of Usher: Law #1. You have to take your panties off the second you arrive. And Law #2. Anyone can come to the IURU, but you have to be wearing panties.